I'd further add to that, that in this case the criminal was only 21 years old. To be honest it is to be expected to mess up at some point with this much pressure at that age.
In my opinion your text is really beautifully written. It fills me with a sense of melancholia because of this inescapability that is portrait in it.
This might not really add anything to the discussion. I just wanted to let you know that your words have been read and appreciated.
I can absolutely agree on the turbo yeast part. I have fermented some apples with turbo yeast and they were able to bring it up to about 21% (but with added sugar).
"more, the most powerful civilization in the world, the US, has objectively one of the worst diets in history."
The diets in the US have gotten worse in recent decades (way more processed foods especially) and the US is objectively facing the ramifications of those diets. That doesn't make them any less powerful but this discussion was actually about health and I think in this regard it paints a clear picture that this is not the way to go.